Yuck

Last night I went to bed with an upset stomach and then woke up in the middle of the night sneezing, with a stuffy nose and that sickish feeling in the back of my mouth. Lovely.

David and I were watching Inception last night and we had the volume up too loud. Well, Avery was eating and the sound got really loud all of a sudden and it scared her sooooo bad. She cried and cried and cried. She let out these little yells I've never heard before. She had a really hard time calming down. Then when we were changing her and putting her jammies on her, she was screaming, which I've heard before but she was getting up to this pitch I've never heard before. It was almost like she was in severe pain. Maybe she was? I got her calmed down and then laid her in her bed and she just laid there and cooed and sucked on her fists and was fine. Poor baby :(

David's boss is having a barbecue tonight for some football game and we got invited. So, we're going.

Well, that's all I know for now.

More Pictures!

This is from this morning 12/21/10. I just finished trying to scrub the cradle cap off her head. Stupid stuff.

Naked baby!

This is last night. She was snoozing on me then I handed her over.

Love my Baby!

Last night Avery babbled the whole evening. It was so fun. I can't even explain how happy it makes me to hear her. I love love love it.

Today she was supposed to get her 2 month shots but I cancelled. I've been meaning to study up on this but I just hate having to think/stress about one more thing that I've procrastinated. I think I'm going to do Dr. Sears' delayed scheduling for vaccinations. I like it because it spaces the vaccinations out so they're not getting so much junk in their little bodies all at once.

Avery is cooing in her chair as I write this...she's thinking about getting mad!

Some sadness is on my heart for a family that I don't know. On my birth board there is a mama who took her baby in for her 2 month check up. The baby had had a bruise on her forehead for a while that wouldn't go away so she asked the doctor about it. The doctor started to feel around and felt something strange with the baby's soft spot. To make a long story short, the baby has a brain tumor and it's taking up most of her skull and pushing her brain over. Right now she shows absolutely no symptoms at all. The doctors told her removing it would damage her brain so to just take her home and make her comfortable. That story would have broken my heart before Avery but now that I have her the story breaks it in a different way. My heart goes out to this family. They are at Stanford working with the neurosurgeons there. I sent the girl a message about Dr. Adler and the cyberknife. This story makes me want to hug and love on my baby girl endlessly. I couldn't imagine...

Boo for sad stories. My baby girl needs some lovin' now so I'm gonna go.

Keep your fingers crossed we can come to OK! I'm ready to pack and get on the road :0)

Pictures!

David snapped this picture. Taken 12/17/10

He also took this picture of me and told me he was just taking a picture of Avery. I told him he could have told me so I could smile. He told me he doesn't like my "picture" smile. Whatever. I won't even go into the horridness of this picture (or the zit above my lip), I'm just posting it because I don't hardly have any of Avery and me anymore.

David took this picture of her chin. For some reason we think her little chin is so cute!

I can't ever get any good pictures of her. When she's being cute and I take a picture, it's always too late. So frustrating :)

Little girl is pretty grumpy most of the time lately. I'm so ready for her to grow out of this stage. Thankfully there are times when she is happy and sweet and it makes up for the crying and crying...

We signed the paper work for the house in Utah. I'm trying to not get my hopes up about coming to OK for Christmas but it's hard. I want to go home so badly. David won't know until Wednesday if he can have the week off. If he does, I imagine we would leave Thursday after he gets off work. He's only working a half day that day. We'll see what happens.

Avery

So stinkin' cute!!

Thanks Grandma!

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FYI

Avery farts. A lot. Who would have ever thought a fart was cute? Not me!

Sometimes she has cute poots and sometimes they're just plain nasty :0)

Avery & her Dad

Avery and her dad sharin' some love last night.

She always has the goofiest faces in pictures :(

She wasn't too happy about being in her car seat haha.

The last 2 nights her sleep has been restless and she's decided she just wants to be held all the time and quit liking her bouncy chair. Oh well. She didn't want to go to sleep last night either. Now she's dozing because the most of earlier this morning she couldn't get any solid sleep. Poor girl.

Getting So Big

I can't believe how Avery's growing. She's getting where she flails her arms around. She coos alot and I love hearing it. It's my new favorite sound! I printed these papers with black and white patterns on them and it's funny to watch her stare at them. It's like she can't take her eyes off them. They're supposed to be good to help her brain synapses or something. They mesmerize her.

Tonight we have David's work's Christmas party. Hope it some good food :)

I started packing up some of Avery's clothes yesterday. I'll see what else I can pack up. This Friday we're going to go buy more totes. Saturday we meet with the lady who owns the house to fill out paperwork or something. I'm for some reason kind of excited about moving and I'm not sure why. David's trying his hardest to find another house closer in Logan before Saturday but he's trying to act like he's not :)

Well, Avery pooped while I was typing this haha so now I've got to go change her.

Come on, burp!

Here's Avery getting burped :0) She looks so big! 12/13/10

She was in a really great mood last night. I was glad because David finally got to see her when she's happy and talkative. Usually by the time he gets home she's grumpy.

We went and looked at the second house. David liked it, I preferred the first house. So after discussion we're going to go for the first house. It's further away but probably the best solution right now. So our new address will be in Hyrum, Utah. I'm sad to leave Idaho :(

Today I've got a gnarly rash all over my body. I tell you what, if it's not one thing it's another. The rash has been coming on for a couple days but it was only on my left arm. Now it's every where and has gotten to be a dark red.

I'm going to post a video on youtube. I know it's not a good one since she's on her belly and you can't see her very well but you can hear her little voice. She's getting irritated but it's cute to hear her voice. I think so anyway :)

Boring Day

Avery and I are stuck at home today. David took my car. Avery's having a fussy day today. She's wanting to be held alot and that's ok. So, I've been snuggling my baby today. That means nothing's getting done around the house ;) She's been running a low grade fever still. I don't know what to think about that.

I got a call back today from a house we wanted to get and we got it, if we still want it. But we found another house yesterday and so we've got to go look at it tonight. David wants the second house but the neighborhood is not near as nice as the first house but the location is good and the price is good. So, we'll see what happens.

Well, little girl keeps falling asleep and waking up and so I put her in her bed and of course she's not sleeping so I better get her!

The Most Precious Sound

is the sound of my baby girl "talking". LOVE it!!

Here's a picture of her this morning in her new jammies.

The rest of these are from yesterday 12/9/10

6 Weeks Today!

This is the quilt the church ladies made for Avery.

Happy Hump Day!

There is something about Avery's little chin that I am in love with. I think it's the cutest thing ever! She has a slight dimple (well, not really a dimple but a line...is it called a cleft?) that she gets from her daddy. You can barely see it but you can feel it.

That crap is mostly gone from her forehead but it's on her scalp. It's going to take a few scrubbing sessions to get it all off.

Last night she was running a low grade temp but I'm pretty sure it's gone. I'll have to check. Not really sure what that was all about. She was a little fussy yesterday off and on and I'm wondering if today will follow suit. She will be 6 weeks on Thursday and I hear that's a fussy time. Who knows what her deal is?

It's Wednesday and the week is almost over which means David doesn't have to work--woohoo!! He's still loving the machine shop. He said he's gone over to the weld shop a few times and can't believe he worked in that environment for so long. He's excited that he comes home relatively clean and doesn't have black boogers when he blows his nose when he leaves work. I'm glad he's in a cleaner environment. I know damage is probably already done but now more won't be done.

Well, Avery isn't happy so I better go!

Quilt

I don't have a picture of it yet but Sunday I was given a quilt made by some ladies in the church for Avery. I knew about it. At my shower all the ladies could make a square if they wanted. They finally got it finished. I think it was so nice of them to do that and a really cute idea.

Well, last night was rough. Not the whole night, just before Avery went to bed. She cried for probably around 2 hours. I finally decided to take a shower and put her in her chair in the bathroom. I knew the sound of the water would make her stop crying and it did. But I stayed in too long and she started crying again. I finally got her calmed down and then she sat in her chair forever, wide awake. I can't remember what time she went to sleep but it had to be close to midnight. Then I left her and made sure she was good and asleep before I moved her to her bed. She's been in a fine mood this morning. It's a good thing she's been smiling at me this morning!!

This child is a pooping machine. She poops on all of her clothes. Every day.

Last Friday David got into a fender bender with a lady. It was her fault, even though she didn't get cited for it. She's from Quebec and speaks only Spanish and French. So, that was real great for David trying to communicate with her. After it happened, a cop came by and told them to hang on, he was sending another cop because he was on his way to another accident. I can't remember the whole story but a cop came and ended up leaving and coming back (there were 2 other accidents at the same time). The lady is married and isn't quite legal yet and her English speaking husband was in Vegas. Her husband called David and told him that he didn't know if her Canadian insurance was valid. So, we're wondering if we're going to get screwed. We'll see.

Well, that's all :0)

What a Cutie

Here's a picture of Avery ready for church on 12/5/10. Look at that big belly!

We're doing really well with her sleeping in her bed for at least the majority of the night. I'm so proud. Part of me is sad to not have her in bed with me but I can't handle the nerve pain from her nursing constantly.

David and I have been looking at houses and apartments in Utah. What a bummer. We found a place that is perfect but it's not in Logan, it's in Hyrum which is further south. We'll see.

I'm bummed about Christmas time. I want to come home and so does David. And I'm not going to put up a tree because if we move before, I'll have to take it down. :(

Hallelujah!

So, I'm not going to expect this for every night from now on but Avery slept in her bed the whole entire night last night! I'm so ready to have my bed back! She sleeps in the middle while David and I sleep on one side smashed up against the wall. As much as I move her over, she scoots right back over.

She's smiling a lot more now and cooing. I love it :0) It's so cute!

Today we're going with some friends to meet some friends down in Far West, Utah. I'm really hoping Avery is good while we're in the car with the other people. You never know with her.

We're also going to go look at a house that's going to be for rent. They're having an open house today. It's in Hyrum, UT.

Hope everyone has a good day!

Pictures

5 Weeks and 1 day

She's getting soooo big!

I do have mastitis and am back on antibiotics. So far they don't seem to be bothering Avery. I picked up some probiotics too. I've been doing some reading about probiotics and how they can help colic, gas, diarrhea and colds, etc in kids. I found some formulated for infants and children but it's powder form and since Avery doesn't get a bottle I'm not sure how I'd give it to her. So I bought probiotics for me and figure she'll get them that way. I might try to give her one bottle a day just to give her some. I've also read that some people give their baby's water with the probiotics in it but I've got to make sure that's ok.

That's all for now :0)

Why?

Why am I up? It's 7:15 and I've been up for about an hour. Avery is waking up now. I should have been sleeping while she was. Last night some good things and not so good things happened.

First, I got her to go to sleep without me being a human pacifier. She didn't like it but mom won. So that's good. The bad part of that is when she woke for her middle of the night snack, she wanted me to be the human pacifier again. Which I didn't want to be so I was irritated and she was happy (as long as I didn't pull away). It's hard for me to try to start getting new habits when I know she's going to get mad and I don't want to bother David. Oh well, we'll get it figured out.

The other good thing is that she went down and didn't wake up for almost 5 hours!

Well, the princess is making lots of noises so I better go check on her!

Ready for Bed...Already

Oh. My. Gosh. I am tired. We were up late last night. And Avery has this little habit of dozing off all evening but the second we get in bed she's wide awake and takes an hour to get to sleep. All the while she wants to nurse for comfort which hurts and the second I pull away from her she screams. It's lovely.

Yesterday while we were at Austin and Vicki's I started freezing. I was shivering and couldn't stop. Also, this is a little TMI but my left breast was hurting and really engorged and I've never had problems with engorgement. We came home and I took a hot shower and got some milk out but it didn't help. I was hurtin' bad. I got on the couch and couldn't stop shivering, it was making my jaw hurt. I was in pants, t-shirt and a sweatshirt and under a blanket and was so cold. I was holding Avery and her hands got clammy. So I went and got a thermometer because I felt like I had a temp. I did, it was 103.2. Anywho, in the end after a couple phone calls, I thought I probably had a case of mastitis. It's 8:40 right now and I'm waiting for the Dr.'s office to open. I feel a whole lot better today other than being tired.

David has only been in the machine shop for 3 days now but he is loving it. He's learning alot and is actually excited to go to work. And...he's wanting to move to Logan. :( I like Preston and I like this house. But David needs to gain Utah residency so he can go to school there and not pay out of state tuition. And he wants to move by the end of this month. We'll see what happens.

Well, that's all I know for now.

Excuse the Forehead Please!

I also forgot to mention earlier that David finally got moved over to the machine shop yesterday and so far he likes it. He said it's much more laid back. He is in charge of 2 CNC lathes.

Stuck at Home

Well, today I had plans to go to Logan and do a little shopping but it's snowing and I don't have working windshield wipers soooooo Avery and I are stuck at home. Bummer. The girl needs some clothes. Every one bought her clothes for when she's older and she doesn't have much newborn size clothes and the ones she does have she's grown out of.

She has the worst case of cradle cap on her forehead and between her eyes. It is GROSS. The doc said to put dandruff shampoo on it and gave me a scrub brush and also said to put hydrocortisone cream on it. I've just been putting Arbonne baby oil on it and picking at it :0) I don't like the idea of putting shampoo that close to her eyes.

She's growing so fast and is so darn cute.

Time to go give her a bath!